A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Historians in action films.
- Mermaids have always been black.
- The CIA’s top secret anti-poop diet.
- The twisty history of paternity testing.
- The electrifying history of the air guitar.
- An oral history of the early trans internet.
- Before the internet, cable TV was for porn.
- A 100-year-old IRA archive found in an attic.
- The problem with diagnosing OCD in the past.
- Before Uncle Sam, there was Brother Jonathan.
- A history of fights over “authentic” Chinese food.
- Scottish military suicide in the long twentieth century.
- The Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924.
- The long, complicated history of black cinema in Chicago.